"There’s one thing you never put in a trap, if you’re smart. If you value your continued existence. If you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there’s one thing you never, ever put in a trap.......Me." - The 11th Doctor

Flex wrote:There was a lot of snark in my statement. Also BB will dump players pretty quickly if he feels their time is up.

Yeah but he extended Brady, so it's bizarre that he wouldn't keep Brady's primary target for the past 5 years who was 2nd in receptions in the NFL last year. That's not signs of drop-off.

Makes me wonder if Brady's extension has more to do with Mallet not being where they need him to be than with Brady still being on top of his game.

If your QB is on fire, you get him more targets; you don't take away his favourite. We could be looking at the start of rebuilding in NE.

I wonder if the pats felt that Welker was more a product of the system? Those two solid tight ends allow the slot to get some favorable matchups. Now that they signed Amendola, I think that's probably at worst a wash.

The NFC west is downright scary, I don't think anyone is keeping pace with the 49ers and Seahawks at the moment. That should generate some great games for years to come.

Kruger is a big enough gamble anyway. It took Suggs coming back for him to get any decent numbers. Does Cleveland have anyone to help him in that way or will he be the guy the offense keys on to free up other people?

We have MLB D'Qwell Jackson. He may not get as much press as Suggs, but I believe (and there could be some bias) that he is the same caliber LB. His biggest problem was tearing muscles that led to back to back missed seasons a couple of years ago. He has been fantasitc in the two years since then, starting every game. I think the two of then, combined with the acquisition of Groves have solidified the LB Core. You then have Gocong, who is a "good" LB, and they should be pretty solid.

I'm pleased with the LB pickups, as well as the DT pick up. It frees up one of our other Defensive lineman to use as trade bait, and the current speculation is that they are talking with the Pats to trade Rubin (which is a shame, I liked him), or Phil Taylor (also a good guy, but not the "Fan Fave" Rubin is) for Ryan Mallet, since the writing on the walls says Cassel is headed back to NE, which makes Mallet expendable.

I'm not sure how excited I am about Mallet. I didn't follow him in College, and since he has been on the Pats, he has really just been the "kneel down butler". Seriously. In 2 years, he's thrown 4 passes, and has 8 Rushing Attempts for -9 yds. I do like his age (24 going into the offseason), I like his height (6'7").

Looking over his College numbers, they look pretty good in two years at Arkansas. His last year there, he had a 64% Comp Rate, 32 Td's, and 12 INT's. The only problem I see, is that he doesn't look incredibly mobile, even if he did score 4 rushing TD's his final year. He seems secure with the ball from College, he doesn't have a fumble in his stats.

In other news, the Browns are closing in on a deal with Fred Davis. If that falls through, they are expected to toss Meyers more money than he is worth, so that they are covered at TE. They are still 10m under the floor for next year, which means that we still need to make a splash or two to make sure we don't run afoul of that, and we still have a fair amount of cap space on top of that.

From what I see left on the market, I would like to see Davis over Meyers, a QB, and a corner. Munnerlyn is supposedly the big one on our radar, I guess we'll see if that pans out.

"There’s one thing you never put in a trap, if you’re smart. If you value your continued existence. If you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there’s one thing you never, ever put in a trap.......Me." - The 11th Doctor

Klaudandus wrote:On the other hand, Discord is voiced by john de lancie, basically reprising his role as Q.

It is because of that episode that i became a fan if that show...but i digress...

Rodgers cromartie to denverKolb will be released, jets to pursueNiners interested in asomughaVikings eyeing former packer jennings and bears urlacher, and matt cassel

I'm re-watching ST:TNG with my 8-year-old daughter because I reckon she's missing out if she doesn't understand what Star Trek is, and because it explores some interesting moral dilemmas. I find I hate Q just as much now as I did then.

Are the Eagles officially in free-fall yet?Koln in NY... Nah, I don't see that working.If Asomugha is the same as the Eagles version, I'm not bothered. If he's the Raiders version, I have more concern.Jennings to the Vikes would make a lot of their fans happy. Not sold on Cassel at all. Urlacher should retire.

With the number of teams still looking for QBs and all fighting over the same mediocre bunch of backups, I am happier than ever that the Seahawks got Wilson.

Browns fans are driving me insane. At least we can agree that we don't think weeden is the answer, but.... they want to collect every freaking QB who gets released. Kolb, Fitzpatrick, Tebow even....

Ugh... I don't know anymore. Of the QB's on the market, I don't see one that I'm sold on. Maybe Mallet, but only if we get him in with the understanding that if it doesn't work, we're going in another direction. My list of Qb's I would have wanted to see come to Cleveland is

Klaudandus wrote:Hey, Tebow won a playoff game, something the browns haven't done in years

I honestly, wouldn't have a huge problem with Tebow being a in Cleveland, but I don't know if I could deal with a media circus that it would become, and the joke was funny enough in my head, I couldn't pass it up.

Honestly, from the word coming out of cleve, if Geno Smith is there at 6 (which is starting to look really likely, barring a trade) they would entertain the idea of taking him. Tebow in the bible belt would make Sundays to religious for me.

Honestly, if he's there, it's probably not a terrible roll of the dice to take Geno. Barring that, the best QB on the open market right now is....probably Fitzpatrick, if only because he was moderately approaching competent for a stretch a year ago, which is more than you can say for most of the folks who have been let go. MAYBE Flynn, but I still don't know how much I trust him, and, to me, his body of work is questionable. With the threats Rodgers had, just about anyone could have lit it up. If Wilson hadn't been so good, we could have made some cracks about how Flynn got beat out for the starting job by a rookie, but Wilson was quality, so no shame on him in that.

If it was me, and I didn't think Smith was going to be there, I'd take a stab at Fitzy. Get him a couple of passable passcatchers, you've already got a solid RB, and see what happens.

Am I wrong in remembering that Cleveland's D wasn't wretched last year, or am I way off base on this?

EDIT: Doom cut his salary, and stays with the Denver Ponies. On paper, this team is really starting to look formidable. *fingers crossed*

"There’s one thing you never put in a trap, if you’re smart. If you value your continued existence. If you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there’s one thing you never, ever put in a trap.......Me." - The 11th Doctor